The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 79

‘And my wife told me that I myself was dead,’ said the man in the coffin.

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: tell, be, say · To what, where: me, man, coffin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 dead	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 I	obl:unmarked
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 coffin	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coffin	det
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	my wife		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is	past	I				dead property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the man		the coffin		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent man=Theme in coffin=Manner

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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